BAFTA Awards: ‘Revenant’ Wins Don’t Seal the Deal for Oscar

Bafta-winning director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has said the diversity problem is bigger than the Oscars Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu with the Best Director and Best Picture BAFTA for “The Revenant” attends the after show party for the EE British Academy Film Awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel in central London.

Michael Fassbender also missed out on the award for Best Actor to Leonardo DiCaprio, who picked up the trophy for The Revenant.

Inside the plush auditorium, actor-comedian Stephen Fry hosted a ceremony that included a Valentine’s-themed kiss-cam stunt which saw seatmates including DiCaprio and Maggie Smith smooch onscreen. Kate Winslet won the best supporting actress for “Steve Jobs”. Jon Taylor, Chris Duesterdiek, Lon Bender, Frank Montano, Martin Hernandez, and Randy Thorn won the Best Sound accolade.

“I remember watching Tom Courtenay in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner when I was 15 years old with my father, all the way to Gary Oldman and State of Grace, which influenced an entire generation of actors”.

DiCaprio, 41, has dominated the Hollywood award season this year for his physically-grueling turn as the 19th century fur trapper Hugh Glass, a role that saw him sleeping in a horse carcass and eating raw bison liver.

Fury Road won four awards in the technical category.

Fellow British star Mark Rylance was named best supporting actor for his role as a Russian spy in Bridge Of Spies. This year’s BAFTA awards – which are Britain’s highest film honors – fell on Leo’s mother’s birthday, and the actor acknowledged her during his acceptance speech.

“I’m shocked and amazed, honoured”. In the 15 years since the BAFTAs moved in front of the Oscars on the calendar, only seven best film BAFTA winners went on to win the best picture Oscar.

Brie Larson won the best actress Bafta for her poignant portrayal of a woman kidnapped and kept in a small room with her child in “Room”.

After already nabbing the same three awards at last month’s Golden Globes, the film is now seen as a leading contender for Oscar glory in Los Angeles on February 28. It’s been an extraordinary year for women, I really am quite overwhelmed.

“Lastly there’s one person I have to thank, I would not be standing up here if it wasn’t for this person”, DiCaprio said.

Financial misdeeds movie The Big Short won Best Adapted Screenplay and the Catholic sex abuse film Spotlight won Best Original Screenplay. The award for a film not in the English language went to Wild Tales.

A group called Creatives of Colour Network organized a protest beside the red carpet against a lack of racial diversity in show business.

The annual BAFTA awards used to be an alternative for the Oscars.